Show HN: Tool to help old Java projects not on modern build systems

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The tool resolves dependencies and generates a ZIP containing the artifact and all required transitive JARs. Visualization to see the dependency graph.Some use cases:• Legacy Ant projects • No modern build system • Air-gapped or offline environments and need to upgrade a jar with transitive jars. • Quick prototyping and debugging • Situations where you just need the JARs( including transitive jars) and not a full Maven projectThe service doesn t require an account and doesn t retain dependency requests. New features or suggestions are welcome here: https://github.com/pmg1991/maven-tools, MIT License source code.Recommended Maven commands if you have a proper Maven project setup:# Download dependencies to local repository mvn dependency:go-offline# Copy dependencies to a directory (default: target/dependency) mvn dependency:copy-dependencies# Copy dependencies to custom directory mvn dependency:copy-dependencies -DoutputDirectory=/path/to/dir# Download all dependencies (including transitive) mvn dependency:resolve

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